BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Earth, Wind & Fire and Chic (featuring Nile Rodgers) teamed up for the "2054 Tour," which has one stop in Upstate New York in 2017.

The team will appear in Buffalo's KeyBank Center on Friday, Aug. 11. Tickets go on sale on Friday, April 28.

Earth, Wind & Fire has been a standard of R&B since the 1970s, pulling from jazz, rock, funk and African music. It was the first African-American act to sell out Madison Square Garden and the first band to perform at a White House social event under President Barack Obama's administration.

Last year, the band's multi-talented founder, Maurice White, died from the effects of Parkinson's disease, but the band continues to tour with both longtime and new members. (White stopped touring with Earth, Wind & Fire in 1994.)

Known as one of the supreme disco bands of the 1970s, Chic is responsible for the hit songs "Le Freak," "Dance, Dance, Dance" and "I Want Your Love."